James
And Emily...
Not exactly a new member, but my wife and I had moved to Texas last year in the beginning of 2006, after being involved with the BRS for a few years, and entering the hobby. We met a lot of very nice members and others involved with the BRS prior to this, especially with buying/selling all of our things for our tanks.
We moved to the Houston area, and since the housing market is so cheap in Texas, we were in the middle of a project putting in an in-wall tank, about 300 gallon show tank in the kitchen/living room (and by the way, Boston definitely has much nicer Fish/Coral specialty Stores)
. But we were never able to finish, around July last year I got very sick, and after going to the ER 4 times in Houston, and they kept saying i just had asthma...they found that i was in Congestive Heart Failure. Being only 24 this was a very difficult time for myself and my wife, who was a Nurse at the hospital. Anyway, after they botched my heart cath, messing up my femoral nerve, and leaving me with permanent chronic pain in my entire right leg...we decided we better come back to Boston for the superior health care, especially the cardiac care. Quite frankly i was convinced the doctors i had been dealing with were going to kill me, it was just a horrible ordeal. So we came back, got put into the doctors hands of the Cardiac team at MGH, and doing much better now, as well as can be.
And now we want to get back to reefing, i have so much time on my hands now, this hobby really is going to save my sanity.
Everyone we had met before we left were all so very nice, we look forward to getting to know everyone now!
Sorry about the long post =P Hope your day is well
-James and Emily
We moved to the Houston area, and since the housing market is so cheap in Texas, we were in the middle of a project putting in an in-wall tank, about 300 gallon show tank in the kitchen/living room (and by the way, Boston definitely has much nicer Fish/Coral specialty Stores)
. But we were never able to finish, around July last year I got very sick, and after going to the ER 4 times in Houston, and they kept saying i just had asthma...they found that i was in Congestive Heart Failure. Being only 24 this was a very difficult time for myself and my wife, who was a Nurse at the hospital. Anyway, after they botched my heart cath, messing up my femoral nerve, and leaving me with permanent chronic pain in my entire right leg...we decided we better come back to Boston for the superior health care, especially the cardiac care. Quite frankly i was convinced the doctors i had been dealing with were going to kill me, it was just a horrible ordeal. So we came back, got put into the doctors hands of the Cardiac team at MGH, and doing much better now, as well as can be.
And now we want to get back to reefing, i have so much time on my hands now, this hobby really is going to save my sanity.
Everyone we had met before we left were all so very nice, we look forward to getting to know everyone now! Sorry about the long post =P Hope your day is well
-James and Emily
